Example sentences of "been a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has always been a close correlation between the status of older people , and their personal achievement . |
| 2 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 3 | There has been a close bond between us all her life . |
| 4 | In some cases there has been a close relationship between the strength of localism and the tendency towards authoritarian government . |
| 5 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 6 | Monica had been a close friend of Ricardo and Jose Weibel . |
| 7 | It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland . |
| 8 | Those who did live there all knew Father McGiff and they were able to inform the ignorant that he had been a close friend of the Rabbi ever since the Jews had arrived in the city . |
| 9 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 10 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend has been a close supporter of the industry for many years and has taken a close interest in its activities . |
| 12 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 13 | The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows . |
| 14 | There has been a close connection between opera and poetry over the years ; given the interchange of thinking between the two subjects . |
| 15 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 16 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 17 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 18 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 19 | I 've been a right so-and-so in my time . ’ |
| 20 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |
| 21 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
| 22 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 23 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 24 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 25 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 26 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
| 27 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 28 | ‘ But it 's been a long day for Sam , so if you do n't mind I 'll send him home . |
| 29 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 30 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |